[EspeonBB]

Australia winning Eurovision would be so strange but I'm here for it as long as Russia doesn't win

[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by EspeonBB

Australia winning Eurovision would be so strange but I'm here for it as long as Russia doesn't win

you could also cheer for Malta or Ukraine or Italy

[LeatherTrumpet]

listening to Malta right now Nicky

[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

listening to Malta right now Nicky

yeah, and what do you think?

[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by Nicky91

yeah, and what do you think?

It is a deffo top 5 i think

[LeatherTrumpet]

i swear Lithuania song is a One Direction song

[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

It is a deffo top 5 i think

let's hope so, the live performance is less loud as the studio version as in the video

and the reason she doesn't move as much is because she's pregnant

[Ross.]

There is no degree of separation

[Ross.]

There is no degree of hesitation

[Ross.]

There is no degree of space between us

[Ross.]

live in love

[Ross.]

We are stars aligned together

[Ross.]

dancing through the sky, we are shining

[Braden]

I keep waking up with Eurovision songs in my head. Today was Malta

[Pete.]

Here for the political mess that is the voting <3

[Denver]

With a voting shake up it has left room for Shock results tonight and it's hard to pick a winner

[_Tom_]

[_Tom_]

Originally Posted by Braden

I keep waking up with Eurovision songs in my head. Today was Malta

Same! And sometimes I don't even know which country/song it is

[Pete.]

Originally Posted by Adam.

With a voting shake up it has left room for Shock results tonight and it's hard to pick a winner

Love the new voting procedure!

[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by Braden

I keep waking up with Eurovision songs in my head. Today was Malta

nice

[Denver]

Originally Posted by Pete.

Love the new voting procedure!

I can't get my head round it tbh and I don't think I will until it plays our on screen

[Ross.]

Has anything actually changed with the votes? I thought they were just announcing it differently

[Pete.]

My understanding of it is that nothing changes really. The individual countries read out how judges of their country scored and then the hosts announce the televotes from least votes - most votes, so the winner is left a secret until the very end

[Black Dagger]

It's really not difficult to grasp imo. But then I watch Melfest every year.

The jury's vote is normally how it's presented (but only 12's being announced so spokespersons are redundant really) and then the televote is calculated together and is being revealed from 26-1 (which could be awful if a country only gets 2 points from the televote) but hey they signed up for this so they can deal with it.

So yeah effectively you could come first with the jury with about 80 points, but the televote hates you and only has you in about 23rd place so you lose. Whereas you could only come about 10th with the jury's but say you win with the televote with about 350 points then it could push you to the win, or at least 3rd place depending on how the top 5 really get on with the televote.

[Black Dagger]

But yeah the jury's have a massive say in this, if they hate Russia like I'm hoping they do for thinking it's a dated mess he could flop even with the televote win which I'm totally expecting he will do, because Russia always do well in the televote.